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QA Engineer (Data)IMVU

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About Us:

IMVU, Inc. (http://www.imvu.com) is an online social game where members use 3D avatars to meet new people, chat, create and play games with their friends. IMVU has reached 100 million registered users, 10+ million unique visitors per month and a $50+ million annualized revenue run rate. IMVU has the world's largest virtual goods catalog of more than six million items, almost all of which are created by its own members. IMVU is available in multiple languages on both Windows PC and Mac platforms, and for mobile users via its IMVU 2Go iPhone application, available in the Apple App Store.

IMVU has been recognized frequently, including Best Place to Work for the past 3 years, Inc. 500/5000, 8th fastest growing private tech company in Silicon Valley over the past 3 years, and 87th fastest growing tech company in North America over the past 4 years.

Founded in 2004, IMVU is backed by venture investors Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital, Bridgescale Partners and Best Buy Capital and is located in Mountain View, CA. IMVU has been profitable since 2009.

We are looking for a senior QA engineer with a passion for data quality to work with our big data team to ensure accuracy and consistency of our business intelligence and data warehousing systems.

Responsibilities:

Improve data quality and coverage by acting as a vocal proponent of QA in every phase of product development, from design through deployment
Drive dialogue in a small agile development team to determine how data will be tested, producing test plans, matrices and acceptance criteria
Select and apply appropriate QA methods and tools (manual exploration, performance/stress testing and beyond) to ensure timely high quality delivery
Author and maintain test plans and procedures. Analyze system failures and test results. Isolate, investigate and report bugs. Verify fixes.
Perform gap analysis of test plans and schedules, prioritizing testing activities

Requirements:

5+ years hands-on software QA experience, including black-box testing & white-box testing with a focus on data used and produced by the system
Experience writing test plans, detailed test cases, and other formal test documentation
Ability to troubleshoot and analyze issues to root cause, ideally at the code-level but definitely at the database level
Excellent communication skills that compliment your ability to work autonomously
Flexible. Consultative. Self-driven. Collaborative. Team Player. Analytic.

Experience & Skills

Bachelor degree or equivalent quality assurance experience
Experience working on business intelligence and data warehousing systems
Familiarity with the use of structured and unstructured data and BIG data
Expertise in SQL, schemas and database concepts like indexing
Experience using Hive, Pig, R, Hadoop & SQL
Proficient in a Linux environment
Experience automating testing processes in a data warehouse environment
Experience creating and/or conditioning test data
Experience in an ETL environment
Experience in business analysis a plus
Experience testing browser-based online services and/or desktop client applications
Experience testing game systems and the data they generate
Experience with open source test tools like Selenium & SimpleTest, Bugzilla, virtual machines, UNIX and SQL/MySQL
Experience with defect tracking and management
Experience with Agile and/or the Scrum framework
Ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively
Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills